The Neuroengineering Laboratory @Rice

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Our Research

Forming, storing, and using memory
requires the hippocampus. Problems in the hippocampal circuit can lead
to memory problems (e.g., Alzheimer's, PTSD) and also more complex
disorders such as depression and anxiety. We'd like to understand how
the hippocampal circuit works at a systems-level in healthy brains, how
it goes wrong, and what can be done to change how it functions.

We employ standard and cutting-edge techniques: simultaneously recording the
activity of dozens of neurons in behaving rodents and manipulating
genetically-selected populations of neurons using light
("optogenetics").

We are developing the real-time systems that will
allow us to use information decoded from neural activity to manipulate
the hippocampal circuit. Why is that useful? By detecting the ensemble neural activity
underlying traces of individual memories in real-time, we hope to build
systems that will, for example, allow us to selectively inhibit the
recall or long-term storage of traumatic episodes.

Open-EPhys site live!After presenting the Open-Ephys software and hardware at COSYNE 2012, the open-ephys website is now live. You can find it at www.open-ephys.com. Hardware designs should ...
Posted Mar 19, 2012, 6:50 PM by Caleb Kemere

Open position: postdoctoral research opportunityThe Rice NeuroE research group is looking for a talented individual to join the lab. The ideal applicant would have experience doing neural recordings in awake behaving animals, strong data ...
Posted Dec 2, 2011, 11:14 AM by Kemere Lab